different between depression vs lying

English

Etymology

From Old French depression, from Latin depressio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??p????n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??p???(?)n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: de?pres?sion

Noun

depression (countable and uncountable, plural depressions)

1. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.

2. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
3. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
4. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
5. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
6. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.

7. The act of lowering or pressing something down.

   Depression of the lever starts the machine.

8. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.

Related terms

• depress
• depressant
• depressing
• depressive

Translations

See also

• downturn

Further reading

• National Bureau of Economic Research on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• depression at OneLook Dictionary Search
• depression in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• depression in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• opensiders, personised, sideperson

Danish

Noun

depression c (singular definite depressionen, plural indefinite depressioner)

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Declension

Further reading

• “depression” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

depression

1. Genitive singular form of depressio.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

depression c

1. depression (all meanings).

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?la?.??/
• Hyphenation: ly?ing

Etymology 1

lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”) +? -ing.

Verb

lying

1. present participle of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”).

Noun

lying (plural lyings)

1. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
   • 1854, Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIV, translated by Philip Schaff et al.

     But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

Derived terms

• low-lying
• high-lying

Translations

Etymology 2

lie (“to intentionally give false information”) +? -ing.

Verb

lying

1. present participle of lie (“to intentionally give false information”).

Noun

lying (plural lyings)

1. An act of telling a lie or falsehood.
   • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "Apples of Sodom"

     […] he must do it by false propositions, by lyings, and such weak discourses as none can believe but such as are born fools […]

Translations

Adjective

lying (not generally comparable, comparative more lying or lyinger, superlative most lying or lyingest)

1. Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious
   • Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, Act 2 scene 1:

   • Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induction scene 2:

Further reading

• lie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lingy